Tarot History Forum

https://www.academia.edu/2442994/Dummet ... e_of_Tarot

Came across this convenient downloadable Word file and thought it would be of interest here, considering the current Dummett thread. Additional information:
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ABSTRACT
"In this paper I give a reconstruction of Dummett’s main arguments concerning the theory of the occult origin of the Tarot, and discuss the reasons behind the success of the Tarot pack – in particular the Major Arcana – in the history of card games. I also provide some indication of the links between Dummett’s interest in the history of card games and aspects of his philosophical background. As I am not an expert on card games, this paper is mainly a personal tribute to a side of Dummett’s work to which philosophers have in general paid little attention."

You can sign up with Academia.edu for free to download this and other articles. Sorry if previously posted. Is Penco the same person as "Pen" who I have seen post here?

Phaeded wrote: Is Penco the same person as "Pen" who I have seen post here?

Our local "Pen" is female, likely not identical to Carlo Penco.

Added:
"Pen" gives a webpage as her own and the web page offers a "Pen Tarot", for which "Penelope Cline" has the copyright

http://www.figtreepress.co.uk/
http://www.figtreepress.co.uk/ThePenTarot.htm



Carlo Penco is Carlo Penco ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Penco

Thank you immensely, Phaeded. I have the Italian version of the essay (in Il Ludus Triumphorum o Tarot: carte da gioco o alfabeto del destino, ed. Rossi and Li Vigni, Genoa 2011) and started to struggle through it. I never thought to look for a version in English!

Penco's essay, "Dummett and Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics" (in Olivieri and McGuinness, eds. (1994),
The Philosophy of Michael Dummett) is excellent, although I don't know its relevance to this Forum.

I have recently started studying Dummett's philosophical writings, to see if he says anything of relevance for us, so far just his short book Truth and the Past (2004), which I am still digesting. A review of this book, essentially an atempt to explain its main argument, is in the journal History and Theory (2008), available in Jstor.